A Day in the Life of the

PowerPoint Puppies

An Introduction

Meet the Kids

Lily Lloydhttp://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmf9L0dDTHG_SkmUkkOzg0ZM7PRoFu3dW-N7t2Vvk9RsM8GMNb_A http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSt2vAY4ebxlwXMZoAwbU52ERuBbQIn1McL5H1hCRKYpXiMHpwu8w

One day, Lily and Lloyd were asked to create PowerPoint presentations for their Senior Thesis papers.

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Their approaches were very different.

Title Slides

Title Slides

• Lily began with a title slide that contains a title, her name, and the date.

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Title Slides

• Lloyd didn’t have one. His PowerPoint began with a random slide about his topic.

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Poor Lloyd!

Beginnings

Beginnings

• Lily had – a slide dedicated to her thesis statement– a slide outlining the content of her senior thesis

presentation

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Beginnings

• Lloyd had an example that made no sense because he hadn’t introduced his main point.

Everyone in the audience looked like this:

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Poor Lloyd!

Slide Construction

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Slide Construction

• Lily – put the topic at the top of her slide– bulleted her text and supplemented with her speech.– used a font large enough to read

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Slide Construction

• Lloyd – forgot his title. – put way too much text on one slide (and read

from it).– used a small font.

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Poor Lloyd!

Visual Appeal

Visual Appeal• Lily – enhanced her presentation with relevant pictures

• Cited with a URL

– picked a professional design– used an plain light color for her background and a dark

color for her text

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Visual Appeal

• Lloyd – either had too many pictures and no pictures at all.

• And (boo!) he forgot to cite his pictures.

– picked a style that distracted from his topic.– used light text and a dark, patterned background

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Poor Lloyd!

Wrap-Up

Wrap-Up

• At the end of her presentation, Lily summarized her main points and reminded her audience of her thesis statement.

• She even asked for questions.

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Wrap-Up

• Lloyd’s last slide read, “The End.”

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Poor Lloyd!

Works Cited Slides

Works Cited Slides

• Lily cited her sources using MLA format.

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Works Cited Slides

• Lloyd’s last slide read, “The End.”

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Poor Lloyd!

The Moral of the Story

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Lilyhttp://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmf9L0dDTHG_SkmUkkOzg0ZM7PRoFu3dW-N7t2Vvk9RsM8GMNb_A

Lloyd

Which PowerPoint Puppy Do You Want to Be?

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Poor Lloyd!